I have worked with Python on and off for 20+ years and I _always_ dreaded working with any code base that had external packages or a virtual environment.

`uv run` changed that and I migrated every code base at my last job to it. But it was too late for my personal stuff - I already converted or wrote net new code in Go.

I am on the fence about Python long term. I’ve always preferred typed languages and with the advent of LLM-assisted coding, that’s even more important for consistency.

I watched it progressively get worse growing up. I don’t live in TX anymore, but I’ve still got family there and it’s more of the same.

If there’s no feedback mechanism, verification doesn’t matter.

I'm not sure why? At least some part of it, I suspect, is related to the "outrage economy". That is, outrage that can drive social media engagement. You don't do it because you're, in good faith, bothered by it. You do it because you can raise a stink and rally others to engage and make yourself popular.

That last bit is just a theory of mine. It seems anecdotally supported though from my own observation, but I am not a sociologist so I'm not going to claim any expertise here.

But as other posters say, not everyone was into that corner of internet culture as millennials. Especially the weirder offshoots.

Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. It’s just part of parenting and being a kid. My parents hated my love for the weird shows on Adult Swim like metalocalypse and squidbillies.

Big shrug - no one should be surprised this portrays a non-narrative future. The future feels pretty chaotic and undirected to me as an adult. I can’t imagine how it feels to a 12 year old.

You take the input, mostly ignore it, and move on. YMMV on that strategy, but if you are deft with it then you can dodge a lot of bullshit.

It does require that the things you do decide to do pan out though. You’ll need results to back it up.

This lesson shows up periodically in different contexts. In the case of OODA, it was fighter pilot dogfighting training.

It’s a good practice to build into different parts of life.

Much of production software engineering is writing boiler plate, building out test matrices and harnesses, scaffolding structure. And often, it’s for very similarly shaped problems at their core regardless of the company, organization, or product.

AI lets me get a lot of that out of the way and focus on more interesting work.

One might argue that’s a failure of tools or even my own technique. That might be true, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m less bored than I used to be.

That’ll always be the blocker with rail. Moving humans, even a lot of them, by rail isn’t cost effective by most company’s definition outside luxury pricing.

Rail wins when you need to move goods in bulk though.

Annoys the hell out of me. I much prefer train travel, even if it’s slower. But in the States, Amtrak is passable at best depending on the particular line. European rail was a lot more pleasant. Neither comes close to Japan though. Their high speed rail is a reason I’d consider living there long term.

Some orgs I've worked for were very "wiki" driven - there's a big expectation of using Confluence or Notion to navigate documentation. This applies both big (5000+) and small (50+) organizations for me.

Other organizations I've worked in were very document centric - so you organize things in folders, link between documents (GDoc @SomeDocument or MSFT's equivalent). Those organizations tend to pass around links to documents or "index" documents. Similarly, this applies for both big and small organizations in my experience.

Of the two, I tend to prefer the latter. Without dedicated editors, the wiki version seems to decay rapidly, especially once the org grows above some size.

Knowledge management is hard...

What if your text editing and presentation experience was slow and laggy? That’s Notion.

It basically takes a couple json files for configuration, and some markdown.

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~zacbrown/zsitegen

Microsoft has long bundled Lync/Skype-for-Business with Office 365. Hell it did that, I’m pretty sure, before Slack even existed.